Can't login in Kali Linux

I saw this post on a quest for a solution to the same problem. I couldn't find an answer. What i then tried doing was this and it worked.

1. While in the username screen press Ctrl+Alt+F1
2. Login with root.
3. Type sudo apt-get update
4. Type sudo apt-get upgrade
5. Type sudo reboot

After that the system rebooted and the login worked! I hope this works for who ever finds this post.

This seems to happen when a lot of updates are run. It happened to me when using the 2016.2 OVA and running a full update and upgrade. Here are the steps that worked:

1. Ctrl + Alt + F1 at the login screen
2. dpkg --configure -a

This will finish the updates that were interrupted.